Here it comes!
Couple bits of news for you today.
First off, on Thursday (tomorrow) we’re doing a 24-hour Twitter event for our fundraising project for the “Guide Dogs for the Blind” organization. So if you’re on Twitter, we’re going to tweet and re-tweet all day long to get everyone to donate at least $1 in the name of their pet (or themselves) to Guide Dogs for the Blind. So be on the lookout for that. Be sure to re-tweet to all your friends and followers to get them to donate if they haven’t yet! You can follow me, my Twitter id is @RunnerInsight
And secondly:
Hey the Missoula Marathon is almost here again! I’m running in the half marathon this year. I thought about doing the full marathon, but after coming off my back injury this winter, I just didn’t feel I had the proper time to prepare for a full 26.2 mile race.
Although I have been running an average of 50 miles a week since April for my 1,222.25 mile virtual run over to the Ellen tv show in Burbank, most of the runs have been in the 8 to 13 mile range. I did do a 16 mile run the other week, but I really had not planned on running that far; we just missed the turn-around point and when I checked the time, we had gone 8 miles one way, so we turned around. But it made for an intensely long run: one that took me several days to recover from. So I have tapered off my mileage this week to give my body the proper rest it needs to run a good 13.1 mile half-marathon race on Sunday.
This year I will be taking along my white cane. In previous race events I have relied on fellow runners to pace me, but last year there were a handful of places along the route that I felt my white cane could have come in handy. For example, coming over McClay’s bridge, the sun just hit me right in the eyes and I couldn’t see a thing, stopping me dead in my tracks!
I’m not too concerned with my time, as I know my vision loss has slowed me down considerably over the years. I’m just excited to be a part of such a great day…and of course looking forward to all the wonderful goodies at the finish line!
How ’bout it?
-Vision Runner
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